Safety device for razors.



No. 774,257. PATENTED NOV. 1904.

A. J. H. LEFEBVRE. SAFETY DEVICE FOR RAZORS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG; 21, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented November 8, 1904.

PATENT EEicE.

SAFETY DEVICE FOR RAZORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,257, dated November8, 1904. A li ation filed August 21, 1903. Serial No. 170,322. (Nomodel.)

To (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR JOSEPH HENRI LEFEBVRE, of the city ofMontreal, in the district of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Devices forRazors; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, andexact description of the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a safety attachment for arazor which will prevent the person shaving himself being accidentallycut and which can be placed upon the razor-blade or removed therefromwithout injury to the edge of the razor.

The invention may be said briefly to consist of a guard-plate yieldinglyconnected to a carrier adapted to be slipped upon the razorblade andmeans for yieldingly retaining such guard-plate in close proximity tothe edge of the razor and whereby such guard-plate may be moved awayfrom the edge of the razor when the safety device is to be removed fromthe blade or put thereon.

For full comprehension, however, of this invention reference must be hadto the accompanying drawings,forming apart of this specitication, inwhich similar reference characters indicate the same parts, and whereinFigure 1 is a side elevation of a razor-blade with a safety deviceconstructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a transversesectional view, enlarged and taken on line A A, Fig. 1, with the guardin contact with the edge of the razor and illustrating particularly therigid connection or relation between the lips and the guard and carrieron which they are mounted; and Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on line BB, Fig. 1, with the guard moved to a position out of contact with theedge of the blade.

The safety device consists of a trough-section 6, corresponding incross-section to the razor-blade and adapted to he slipped endwise uponthe back thereof. The sides 0 of this trough-section are resilient andnormally incline toward one another, with a distance between theirouteredges less than the thickness of the razor-blade in order that suchtroughsection, which constitutes a carrier, will clip the razor-bladeand be held firmly in place.

A guard (Z is preferably hinged, as at e, to the carrier and consists,preferably, of a combplate. A pair of lipsf and g, respectively, arecarried rigidly and in juxtaposition, one, f, by the comb-plate and theother, g, by the carrier, and a bow-spring it is secured at one end, asat 2', beneath the attached end of lip f, while its opposite end is bentto bear upon the lip 9 upon the carrier and retain the combplateyielclingly in bearing relation with the edge of the razor.

To remove the safety device from a razorblade, the lips f and g arepinched together against the spring 7t, thereby displacing thecomb-plate from the razor edge, thus enabling the safety device to beslid from the blade without any danger of the edge being damaged by thecomb-plate, while the resilient nature of the carrier enables it to befitted upon almost any form of razor.

What I claim is as follows:

1. In a safety device to be attached to a razor, the combination with acarrier adapted to be carried by the razor-blade, of a guard hinged tosaid carrier, a rigid lip secured to and carried by said guard and asecond rigid lip formed integrally with the carrier, and meansyieldingly retaining said lips apart.

2. In a safety device adapted to be attached to a razor, the combinationwith a carrier adapted to be carried by the razor-blade and consistingof a trough-like device, of a guard consistingof a comb-plate hinged tosaid carrier, a rigid lip secured to and carried by said guard and asecond rigid lip formed integrally with the carrier, and meansyieldingly retaining said lips apart.

3. In a safety device to be attached to a razor, the combination with acarrier adapted to be carried by the razor-blade, of a guard hinged tosaid carrier, a rigidlip secured to and carried by said guard and asecond rigid lip formed integrally with the carrier, and a springbetween the said lips.

In a safety device adapted to be attached guard and bearing upon the liprigidly upon to a razor, the combination with a, carrier the carrier. 10adapted to be carried by the razor-blade and In testimony whereof I haveafiixed my sigeonsisting of a tro11gh-like device, of a guard nature inpresence of two Witnesses.

5 consisting of a comb-plate hinged to said ear- ARTHUR JOSEPH HENRILEFEBVRE.

rier, a rigid lip secured to and carried by said \Vitnesses: guard and asecond rigid lip formed integrally WILLIAM P. MOFEAT,

with the carrier, and a spring secured to said FRED J. SEARS.

